SKA hockey club forward Kirill Tankov, playing for the SKA-Neva farm club once morest Dynamo St. Petersburg, received a severe spinal injury. The 20-year-old attacker was pushed hard in the back onto the board.
After that, he was unable to get up on his own. He was taken off the ice on a stretcher. Tankov was hospitalized and taken to intensive care.
At the moment, the 20-year-old hockey player is in intensive care. According to Match TV, following the initial examination, doctors diagnosed Tankov with a fracture of the cervical vertebra, presumably the fifth. It is assumed that Tankov will miss due to injury for regarding a year.
“All this did not happen according to hockey rules. A very sad episode. Our best hockey players get injured because the opponents play very hard once morest SKA. But there are limits. Hopefully the line will be drawn. It is necessary that the guys develop, play in Russia and please the fans. Michkov has been missing for three months now. Who needs it? Something needs to be corrected here, ”the press service of the St. Petersburg team quotes SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg.
“It’s a miracle that the young striker survived. But our hockey has lost a very strong and promising player who, in terms of potential, might grow into a new Panarin or Kucherov,” journalist Pavel Lysenkov said in his telegram channel.
